Madeline Buckley

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A patron at the Chicago History Museum used a museum iPod to make a written threat to Trump Tower Wednesday evening. The patron checked out an iPod that is used as an audio assist tool around 5 p.m. at the museum at 1601 N. Clark St. near the Old Town Triangle neighborhood on the North Side, Chicago...

Three people were killed and 10 others were wounded in city shootings Saturday and early Sunday, including 3 people who were shot in a vehicle and then jumped on a CTA bus on the West Side. The most recent homicide happened around 5:20 a.m. Sunday in the 7700 block of South Kilbourn Avenue in the...

The woman shuffled out of her South Side apartment, moving slowly over the fresh layer of snow on the sidewalk. She was stooped, almost at a 90-degree angle. Her hair was wrapped, and she wore a long purple bathrobe with white gym shoes. She beckoned to a police officer and whispered urgently before...

The Sun-Times Media Group has parted ways with Chicago Reader Executive Editor Mark Konkol after the alt-weekly publication ran cover art that was widely condemned as racist. The departure was announced Saturday night in a statement from Sun-Times Media CEO Edwin Eisendrath that said the cover...

One man was seriously injured early Sunday after a fire broke out in a condo at the former John Hancock Center, officials said. The blaze started before 5:15 a.m. and was confined to one unit on the 52nd floor at 175 E. Delaware Place in the Near North Side’s Gold Coast neighborhood, the Chicago...

One man was killed and nine other people were wounded in city shootings Friday and early Saturday, including a 16-year-old boy who was seriously injured in a West Side shooting and three others who are facing critical injuries. In the homicide, a 19-year-old man was killed in a double shooting...

A carjacker ordered his dog to attack a cabbie on the Near North Side, sped off in the taxi and then collided with two other cars, killing a 69-year-old woman from Lincoln Park, prosecutors said Friday. Michael Jorgensen, 29, has been charged with felony murder, vehicular hijacking and aggravated...

A man forced a woman into an alley and sexually assaulted her at knifepoint early Thursday morning in the Little Village neighborhood on the West Side, Chicago police said. The woman was walking near the 3300 block of West 25th Street around 3:30 a.m. when the man emerged from an alley and followed...